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Funding Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Project Grant APP1005071 (R.K.S., F.C., J.T., Y.W.), by the Australian Research Council under the Federation Fellowship scheme (F.C.), the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital (F.G.) and the National Institutes of Health (USA) HHS-N-263-2007-00053-C (R.K.S.). The Bionics Institute acknowledges the support it receives from the Victorian government through its Operational Infrastructure Support Program. We thank Genevieve Evin, Jacqueline Andrews, Dimitra Stathopoulos, and Alison Neil for advice and assistance.